Change agent: A person who has initiated significant, positive change within his/her social, professional or larger circles.

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Brand, Paul Pioneering hand surgeon who developed tendon transfer techniques that revolutionised the way leprosy patients were treated. Read more

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Chandy, Jacob Padmabhushan Jacob Chandy was the first neurosurgeon of India and is regarded as the father of neurosurgery in India. Dr. Chandy, who trained in various places abroad was invited by the then Director, Robert Cochrane, to join CMC Vellore. He started the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at CMC, the first of its kind in the country. Read more

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Fillebrown, Rachel Rachel Fillebrown, who has born in 1986 in Massachusetts, USA, donated the entire money she received as gifts for her wedding - 10,000 dollars - to CMC, to build the first hostel for staff and student nurses in the year 1922. Sadly, she was not able to visit CMC during her lifetime to see her wedding gift that had been a tremendous blessing to hundreds of nurses. Read more

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Gault, Edward Missionary, pathologist, surgeon, teacher, academic and researcher:
Dr. Gault's commitment and calling represented the best
that CMC has to offer in education. Read more

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Lazarus, Hilda

Padmashri Hilda Lazarus, one of the foremost
physicians of her time, was CMC's first Indian
principal and its first Indian director (1948 to
1954). It was
during her principalship that the institution was first granted permanent
affiliation to the Madras University, and also opened its doors to male medical
students for the first time. Read more

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Scudder, Ida Belle Ida B. Scudder, niece to Ida Scudder, developed Radiology in CMC and was a pioneer of Radiotherapy,
bringing its benefits to tens of thousands of cancer sufferers in southern India. Read more.